Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Enterprise Identity and Access

Nvidia • Santa Clara, CA

97d • $168,000 - $258,750

About The Position

At NVIDIA, continuous innovation in AI and accelerated computing demands robust, automated, and secure production environments. We are seeking a deeply skilled Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to advance our enterprise security initiatives around identity and access, delivering zero trust outcomes by implementing, integrating, and scaling innovative technologies across cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures. This position requires a strong software engineering background, but focuses on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. A strong candidate excels in crafting secure systems, integrating internal and commercial products, and using sophisticated tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering/DevOps/SRE experience, with a significant focus on operational security, automation, and identity management.
• Proficiency in Linux administration, networking concepts, and security protocols.
• Proven track record integrating and operating container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Nomad), with strong emphasis on automation and CI/CD (Argo CD, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.).
• Hands-on knowledge of zero trust security principles, including SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, X.509 rotation, SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, and cloud IAM services.
• Experience with secrets management (Vault, AWS/Azure/Google Secret Manager, K8s Secrets) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Proficient in observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry or equivalent experience) and policy automation frameworks.
• Strong background in automation using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Demonstrated ability leading operational and incident response efforts at scale, developing runbooks and playbooks that leverage both automation and AI tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operationalizing service mesh, identity federation, or policy engines in reliability-focused environments (Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect).
• Track record advancing zero trust architecture through automation and minimized human access, including ephemeral credentials and policy enforcement.
• Background in integrating AI/ML-assisted tools for operational intelligence, anomaly detection, and reliability improvements.
• Experience driving compliance, audit readiness, and operational security in cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and hybrid environments.
• Relevant security/DevOps/SRE certifications and open-source contributions.

Responsibilities

• Support, operationalize, and scale zero trust identity and access platforms—driving reliability, automation, and secure credential and policy management across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Integrate and automate the deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of existing commercial and open-source products (SPIRE, Teleport, etc.), emphasizing ephemeral certificate-based authentication, mTLS, and SPIFFE protocols.
• Advocate for operational guidelines for CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), policy as code, and security observability, using tools like Kubernetes, Argo CD, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Vault, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Apply AI-assisted and data-driven approaches to automate anomaly detection, incident response, and compliance reporting, driving continuous improvement in system uptime and threat mitigation.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, and security teams to minimize manual intervention, limit privileged access, and enforce policy compliance through scalable automation.
• Support incident management, triaging, and blameless postmortems with security context, ensuring rapid root-cause analysis and recovery.
• Conduct ongoing risk assessments, proactively address emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and contribute to post-incident reviews passionate about reliability and trust boundary breaches.

Benefits

• Base salary range is 168,000 USD - 258,750 USD.
• Eligible for equity and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree